http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26513/chinese-government-attacks-evil-cult-dance-group-performance-in-seattle http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26513/chinese-government-attacks-evil-cult-dance-group-performance-in-seattle#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:59:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26513 The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco has written an official letter addressed to members of the city council of Seattle, Washington, dismissing a performance of a Falun Gong-related dance group and asking him not to attend, nor to congratulate the group.

Naturally nobody takes him seriously.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26513/chinese-government-attacks-evil-cult-dance-group-performance-in-seattle/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25976/suit-claims-cisco-helped-china-pursue-falun-gong http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25976/suit-claims-cisco-helped-china-pursue-falun-gong#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 08:38:08 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25976 Cisco, the maker of Internet routing gear, customized its technology to help China track members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by members of the movement.

The lawsuit is based on the Alien Torts Statute, a federal law that permits foreign nationals to bring lawsuits in United States federal court claiming violations of international law]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25976/suit-claims-cisco-helped-china-pursue-falun-gong/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24304/us-to-give-1-5m-to-falun-gong-internet-freedom-group http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24304/us-to-give-1-5m-to-falun-gong-internet-freedom-group#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 08:49:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24304 A Falun Gong-linked group that promotes internet freedom says the US state department has offered it $1.5m, in a move condemned by Chinese officials.

Falun Gong, which combines meditation with Buddhist-inspired philosophy, has been banned in China since 1999 for carrying out "illegal activities". ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24304/us-to-give-1-5m-to-falun-gong-internet-freedom-group/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24183/china-rejects-america-falun-gong-resolution http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24183/china-rejects-america-falun-gong-resolution#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:11:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24183 China on Thursday lashed out at a US House of Representatives resolution that urged Beijing to end its "persecution" of Falun Gong -- a religious movement China has outlawed as a religious cult.

The House voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to call on China to free thousands of members of the movement who are said to be imprisoned and to abolish a government office tasked with fighting the movement.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24183/china-rejects-america-falun-gong-resolution/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23994/argentine-judge-asks-china-arrests-over-falun-gong http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23994/argentine-judge-asks-china-arrests-over-falun-gong#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:34:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23994 An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in the alleged persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

Falun Gong hailed it as a historic human rights ruling on Tuesday, although a lawyer for the group acknowledged it is largely symbolic.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23994/argentine-judge-asks-china-arrests-over-falun-gong/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:54:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22018 Members of the Falun Gong sect protested outside the congress of the International Congress of the Transplantation Society.

The sect members claim that China kills its followers in order to illegally harvest their organs.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22018/falun-gong-14/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 06:41:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21422 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21422/falun-gong-cult/feed 0